| 'Throughout, Kocsis's performances are as bold and stimulating as his choice of works, gloriously free-spirited and of an immense pianistic brio and command. Indeed his performance of the Second Sonata is as fulminating and rhapsodic as any on record...Action-packed in an exhausting and enthralling way, his reading never sounds arch or contrived in a way that so often disfigures Horowitz's famous account. Purposeful and sometimes angular, Kocsis possesses a stupendous technique, stepping out in dazzling style in the ultra-Russian Etude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 1 and clarifying the Siberian whirlwind of the F minor Prelude, Op. 32 No. 6 with a breathtaking clarity and focus...and he has been magnificently recorded.' Gramophone |
